Whip Cracking videos on the web site.

Canasta · Post by **Canasta** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:04 pm

Greetings everybody,
I finally got some whip cracking videos on my web site.
They are broken up into one minute shorts and can be viewed with Quicktime.
They were taped for the Tonight Show producers last August.
Some were done on a stage and some were shot by our very own Dan Trout at the WWAC Ohio convention.

Enjoy.
Chris
You can find them at
http://www.thewhipguy.com/Videos.html

winrichwhips · Post by **winrichwhips** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:52 am

I just watched the first video. Very cool music. I especially liked how you timed jumping over the whip with an accent in the music. I remember you mentioning that you were thinking of using music from 'The Incredibles' in your routines. Is that where this music is from?

As always, the whipcracking looks great! You are, as they say in Compton, 'da shiznit.'

-Adam

Canasta · Post by **Canasta** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:40 am

YO! A,
No the music is from some "ultra lounge" cd.
I actually did the routine to no music and put that piece in later.
It just happened that it matched up almost perfectly.

As they say in Compton, 'nuckinfutz!.
C

Post by **BullWhipBorton** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:56 pm

Chris, you are quite a whip artist, Great stuff in those clips I really enjoyed them and the fire whips always impress the heck out of me.

Dan

BTW You have very good taste in assistants

thefish · Post by **thefish** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:50 pm

Yes, Other Dan! Fire Whips are AWESOME! The Fire Whip Footage goes DIRECTLY on my new Demo Reel, (right there along side of all the automatic weapon fire I shoot video of twice a year!) and that's one of the higlights of the WWAC Ohio DVD, <SHAMELESS PLUG>premiering at WWAC Nationals in Claremore in April, and soon available for $20 +S/H from gldenterprises.net, (subject to Ohio sales tax, side effects include sweating, excitement, lots of "oooh"ing and "ahhh"ing, and lack of money due to purchase of new whips. Offer expires while you wait. Operators are standing by.)</SHAMELESS PLUG>

Anyway...Rich Hoffman and I spent a considerable amout of time talking about your Firewhip performance, and those go RIGHT INTO our upcoming short feature based on his novel! (He should have recieved his first Firewhip from Riz by now. Second we should have before we begin principle photography in June.)

I'll refrain from further comment on the rest of the Firewhip and parade footage, (as that would be grandstanding ;-) ) but the stuff from the stage is awesome! So much better than we were able to stage in that nightmarish barn at Annie Oakley. The light in there was awful, you'd been performing and competing all day, and were sweaty and exhausted, (the stuff that I shot for Gery in there was gawd-awful as well!) and the those flourescent lights were doing creepy-pulse things because of the shutter speed I was using.

Also, your assistant in those is a lot cuter than Paul Nolan! (the thought of Paul Nolan in a unitard! I shudder!) The accoustics on the stage really make those whips sing, too!

Great stuff! I like the volley while turning around. Only people who've tried that know how darned difficult it is! You've also incorporated that spinny-crack-thing Mark Mulligan had all the kids doing at Annie Oakley. Looks good in there!

Also, are the poppers on your whip when you're cutting veggies the ones from the kevlar bow string material? That came out great!

Good stuff!

(on a more depressing note, I hear that you're not going to be able to make it to Annie Oakley next year. Is this true? That *****! I'm not going to be in Claremore due to work reasons and was looking forward to seeing you guys again!)

Take care!

-The Other Dan ;-)

Canasta · Post by **Canasta** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:34 am

Hey Dan and Dan.
Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah, Megan is a real dish. And she's really funny too. She did a great job. I wish i had an assistant to work with all the time.

I can't wait to see the Ohio DVD.

Yeah, unfortunately I will not be at the Ohio event which reallly stinks.
Not my choice. My inlaws (whom I really love) decided intead of buying everyone presents for Christmas, decided to buy all of the daughters and husbands a vacation. It's gonna be fun, but falls during the event. Not the whole thing, but just enough to really mess it up.

I hope to add some double handed stuff soon as well as some tutorial videos. Easy cracker making etc.

Later,
C

thefish · Post by **thefish** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:13 am

You need to do what Gery and Robert Dante have done, and get your wife to do it. ;-)

I've breeched the subject with Heather, (my wife,) and she agreed to be my target girl, as long as I was her target boy...

I had to decline...

She doesn't throw whips...

She does archery.

Come #### or high water, Gery will have the DVD's at Nationals in Claremore. We'll also have it available online somewhere, (either at his site, or at the currently under construction "fishmongerfilms.com.") The editing is done, but hold up right now is music, (I'm assured it's almost done, but I have yet to see it.) Once I have that, I'll lay it in, do some final tweeking on the video, and send it to my duplicator.

Anyway...

Free vacation? You can't beat that with a whip! ;-)

Yes, you DO have to do some two handed stuff. If Leno had seen that, it would have been what you did instead of cutting the flower!

(Seriously, folks who haven't seen Canasta do his two handed stockwhip routine. I swear! It's almost EXACTLY an old drumline warm-up we used to do back when I was in high school! A little work, and you could do the drum solo from Inna Gadda Davida!)

As always, darned impressive my friend. Sorry you won't be at Annie Oakley, (but it's good to know that it's for a GOOD thing, and not a surgery, or work, or some other nonsense!) hope to see you again soon!

-Dan

scout · Post by **scout** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:32 pm

Great stuff Chris! Could you tell me about the whips you used,especially in the first two clips? Legnth,plait,who made them, etc?
Thanks
Jim in Bonnie Scotland

Canasta · Post by **Canasta** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:06 am

Thanks Jim and Bonnie.
The single handed routine on the stage used a 6 ft, 12 plait bullwhip by Joe Strain.
The specs were: 6ft whip with 30 inch fall and roughly 6 inch cracker. The handle was 12 inch graphite. this was the whip that I used for my Guinness attempt.

The Target cutting routines used a 6 foot Lone Star from Joe Strain and an 8 foot Terry Jacka bullwhip purchased from David Morgan. This is the second good whip I ever bought. It's around 11 years old.

After a while you'll find that even whips that are the same length will do different things for you. This is one of my favorite whips because there are certain tricks that I won't do with any other. Specifically the first target trick on that video. You can't really tell it on the video but I cut that target from behind her head while standing opposite the target which means that the target is facing the same directioin that the whip is traveling and I can't see it because I am standing on the other side of Megan. (Mark the Whip Weinger showed me that trick a couple of years ago. He told me if I did that trick and didn't tell that he showed it to me, He'd KILL ME.) So I'm telling ya.

All the best.
Chris

Herr Jones · Post by **Herr Jones** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:52 am

Chris Canasta

I noticed that trick Mark the Whip Weinger showed you, which was cool, and thought it was just one of those usual tricks since this is all new to me. Has Megan assisted you before? She did great. The fire cracking was awsome what did you do to protect the whip?

Dan thefish,

What a coincidence, my girl volunteered to be my assistant and she's been wanting a bow for a while now. But I wouldn't even think of it I can hardly crack my whip.

Best,
Herr Jones

Canasta · Post by **Canasta** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:22 pm

Hi Herr Jones.
This was the very first time that Megan had assisted me.
You'll notice that when I cut some of the targets, she watches them instead of just standing looking ahead. She has a great sense of humor and some of the out takes were pretty funny. Some of the moments where she was caught a bit by suprise.

The fire whips are actually made of Kevlar which is fire proof for the most part. They are a blast. Some of the out takes from Dan's video taping are quite funny too. During one perfomrance, I actually set the back side of my pants on fire. Thanks to Paul Nolan and his quick finger in the trigger of the fire extinguisher. For a short moment, no one could deny that I had the hottest butt around.
The fire whips are made by a fella named Riz out of Florida.
Great guy and gread whips.
They are 6 feet by the way.

all the best,
Chris

thefish · Post by **thefish** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:58 pm

That fire-whip foul up is on the blooper reel on Disk 2, Chris. Just FYI. ;-)
I said then that if that whole "Whip making" thing shouldn't work out, Paul could become a volunteer firefighter. He already spends his days inhaling lots of smoke, why not make money at it? ;-)

Rich Hoffman's first 6 foot Fire whip from Riz should have shipped yesterday, (he's getting the other for his birthday.)

I spotted that 6 foot Strain Lonestar immediately, (as it cracks almost exactly like my 8 footer!) and I just got a 6 foot Jacka, and it is fast becoming my favorite whip, (though I keep telling my 8 foot Strain that no one will ever replace her. Therapy time? Probably.)

I asked it before, but it was well hidden in the post. RE: The vegetable cutting clips. Are those using the kevlar poppers Bry and I showed you at Annie Oakley? (kevlar material for making bow strings. NASTY little buggers that produce bright, sharp cracks. Also produce nasty welts and cuts if you're not careful. So speaks the Voice of Experience!) You had mentioned that they cut vegetables well.

A friend of mine who's a professional chef just recently got an 8 foot whip from Paul Nolan. I'm getting ready to produce a streaming "10 Steps to Better Stir Fry" video for her website. I want to propose that we do a take where she throws the knife down and says, "This is too easy. Let me show you a far more cool way to cut up your veggies!"

She'll laugh. She might even want to try it, but I don't think she'll let me put that in her video.

-Dan

midwestwhips · Post by **midwestwhips** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:37 pm

That fire-whip foul up is on the blooper reel on Disk 2, Chris. Just FYI.
I said then that if that whole "Whip making" thing shouldn't work out, Paul could become a volunteer firefighter. He already spends his days inhaling lots of smoke, why not make money at it?

Hey Dan,

That would be a heck of a lot cheaper at least, ;-) And I can't wait to see the blooper reel of that. One of the funniest moments I've ever experienced!

Can't wait for the DVD, and I'm not the only one!!!

And Chris, Great video's on your site, I was a little dissapointed that I wansn't in the background of the Parade one though. I distinctively remember spending most of the time running around buying papers on the route so you would have stuff to cut the whole time. And the best part is that the paper that day had chris on the front page cracking whips from the day before. Chris was cutting himself in half,

)

The Videos look great! And Megan too!

Regards,

Paul Nolan
MidWestWhips

PS-I was meaning as an assistant, but take it however you want to...

Canasta · Post by **Canasta** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:15 pm

Man, I had completely forgotten about being on the cover of that paper. That is funny. I crack myself up ..... get it? Crack myself up.....
C